Hacking speech systems

Why speech recognition systems struggle with accents, how you can hack your training data, and the importance of solving ASR at a platform level.

Why Alexa doesn’t understand your accent

In a study by Uswitch, it was found that Irish, Welsh and Scottish accents are the hardest for voice assistants like Alexa to understand. Here’s why Alexa doesn’t understand your accent.

Give your smart speaker a break, it’s working pretty hard

give alexa a break

The microphone technology in your smart speaker, it’s pretty impressive. When you talk, sound leaves your mouth, but it doesn’t travel in a straight line. It travels like a shotgun and it just blasts in all different directions and then bounces around the room and you get reflections. It’s called reverb, and those reflections are […]

Conversational ear worms

conversational ear worms

What is the conversational equivalent of an ear worm? An ear worm is a song that you just cannot get out of your head. It doesn’t matter how hard you try it just sticks in there. If any of you have got kids then you’ll know exactly what it’s like to wake up at five […]

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